Arduino Starter Kit Multi-language
Get started with electronics quickly and easily - no prior experience required. Available versions: Deutsch (DE), English (EN), Español (ES), Français (FR), Italiano (IT), 中文 (CN), 한글 (KO) عربى (ARA)
Overview
Quickly and easily get started with learning electronics using the Arduino Starter Kit, which have a universal appeal to STEM fans at home, businesses in STEAM industries, and schools alike. No prior experience is required, as the kits introduce both coding and electronics through fun, engaging, and hands-on projects. You can use the starter kit to teach students about current, voltage, and digital logic as well as the fundamentals of programming. There’s an introduction to sensors and actuators and how to understand both digital and analog signals. Within all this, you’ll be teaching students how to think critically, learn collaboratively, and solve problems.
Projects you can make:
- 01 GET TO KNOW YOUR TOOLS an introduction to the basics
- 02 SPACESHIP INTERFACE design the control panel for your starship
- 03 LOVE-O-METER measure how hot-blooded you are
- 04 COLOR MIXING LAMP produce any color with a lamp that uses light as an input
- 05 MOOD CUE clue people in to how you're doing
- 06 LIGHT THEREMIN create a musical instrument you play by waving your hands
- 07 KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT play music and make some noise with this keyboard
- 08 DIGITAL HOURGLASS a light-up hourglass that can stop you from working too much
- 09 MOTORIZED PINWHEEL a colored wheel that will make your head spin
- 10 ZOETROPE create a mechanical animation you can play forward or reverse
- 11 CRYSTAL BALL a mystical tour to answer all your tough questions
- 12 KNOCK LOCK tap out the secret code to open the door
- 13 TOUCHY-FEEL LAMP a lamp that responds to your touch
- 14 TWEAK THE ARDUINO LOGO control your personal computer from your Arduino
- 15 HACKING BUTTONS create a master control for all your devices!
Once you’ve mastered this knowledge, you’ll have a palette of software and circuits that you can use to create something beautiful, and make someone smile with what you invent. Then build it, hack it and share it. You can find the Arduino code for all these projects within the Arduino IDE, click on File / Examples / 10.StarterKit.
Have a look at these video tutorials for a project by project walk-through.
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Tech specs
The Starter Kit includes:
1 Projects Book (170 pages),
1 Arduino Uno,
1 USB cable,
1 Breadboard 400 points,
70Solid core jumper wires,
1 Easy-to-assemble wooden base,
1 9v battery snap,
1 Stranded jumper wires (black),
1 Stranded jumper wires (red),
6 Phototransistor,
3 Potentiometer 10kOhms,
10Pushbuttons,
1 Temperature sensor [TMP36],
1 Tilt sensor,
1 alphanumeric LCD (16x2 characters),
1LED (bright white),
1 LED (RGB),
8 LEDs (red),
8 LEDs (green),
8 LEDs (yellow),
3 LEDs (blue),
1 Small DC motor 6/9V,
1 Small servo motor,
1 Piezo capsule [PKM22EPP-40],
1 H-bridge motor driver [L293D],
1 Optocouplers [4N35],
2 Mosfet transistors [IRF520],
3 Capacitors 100uF,
5 Diodes [1N4007],
3 Transparent gels (red, green, blue),
1 Male pins strip (40x1),
20 Resistors 220 Ohms,
5Resistors 560 Ohms,
5 Resistors 1 kOhms,
5 Resistors 4.7 kOhms,
20 Resistors 10 kOhms,
5Resistors 1 MOhms,
5 Resistors 10 MOhms
Get Inspired
Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an Arduino?” The answer comes down to the priorities and needs of industrial clients. In a factory automation setting, the client will prioritize durability, reliability, and serviceability over the one-time purchase price of the device itself. But to prove that Arduino’s professional turnkey solutions are just as easy to use as their developer-focused educational counterparts, Jeremy Cook leveraged an Arduino Opta micro PLC to build a drum machine. This isn’t any old drum machine that plays sound samples or synthesized notes, but rather a robotic drum machine that makes noise by banging on stuff like a true percussion instrument. Cook could have built this with any Arduino board and a few relays, but instead chose to implement the Opta and new Opta Digital Expansion. That is robust enough for serious commercial and industrial applications, but is still simple to program with the familiar Arduino IDE. Programmers can also use conventional PLC languages if they prefer. In this case, Cook made noise with relays and solenoids. The Opta has four built-in relays and Cook’s sketch flips one of them to make a sound analogous to a hi-hat. Cook added an Arduino Pro Opta Ext D1608S module with its solid-state relays for the other two “drums.” One of those fires a solenoid that taps a small hand drum (the kick drum sound), while the other controls a solenoid that hits a power supply enclosure (the snare sound). Together, those three sounds can cover the basics of a drum track. Cook’s sketch is a drum sequencer program that stores each sound sequence as array, looping through them until turned off. An Opta may be overkill for a project like this one, but this does a great job of demonstrating the ease at which an Arduino user can transition to professional PLC work.